Joseph Mills

Joseph Martin Mills was born in 1951 in Beloit, Wisconsin. He received a B.A. in communications from American University, and also attended Maryland Institute College of Art, The Corcoran School of Art and Rochester Institute of Technology. Mills spent time in a mental institution at the age of twenty-one, which greatly influenced his art in later years. He wanted his art to show individuals as opposed to social settings or groups. Joseph states that his art is a personal process of self-discovery. He has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including his first solo museum exhibition “Inner City”, in which the artist displays the poverty and decay of Washington D.C during the late 1980s. Mills works are included in the collections of Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, and other institutions.